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It was a little more than eight years ago that I met the person I intend on spending the rest of my life with. After just a few months of dating, he told me he was moving to San Francisco for a job, and after just a few weeks of trying to navigate New York City post-college, I decided it wasn't for me. I  boarded a Lucky Star bus in NYC bound for Boston's Chinatown when I took out my phone and told him I was coming to the west coast to meet him there.

In seven-plus years, we've made invaluable friends, carved career paths we never would have sought at home, and found our own little corner of the world where we could be together in solitude.

It's nearly impossible to sum up those seven years. I won't try to, but I'll say deciding to head back  east is as bittersweet as it gets. San Francisco is one of those rare cities full of transplants, so holidays away from family was tough but comforting knowing we were surrounded by people in the same position: making it work, no matter how far our real families were, adopting new traditions, no matter how foreign.


Our west coast family is just as dysfunctional, unconditionally loving and accepting as our own real  families, which makes moving home just as hard as it was to move out here in the first place.

There's plenty of exciting aspects of moving back east: our parents, our friends and their growing families, meals that don't cost $150, bar pizza (ya'll, west coast pizza is pitiful)....but the most imminently exciting is the trip itself. I've always dreamed of driving across the country, and we're finally going to do it. We're taking 10 days to make the trip from SF to Boston, hitting some of the states and cities we've yet to see, and some that deserve a second visit (we're baaaack Edmond).

For the friends and family that want to follow along, we've mapped out our planned route. We'll document the drive via Insta, too. We leave SF April 13, and, if all goes accordingly, arrive in EB April 22.

East coast - it's good to be back and we'll see ya soon. West coast - we'll be back, again and again. And we love you so, so much. We've got a week-ish left to finish out this SF bucket list with you. 

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  1. antiwinterrrApril 2, 2018 at 3:59 AM

    So exciting!!!! Looking forward to following your travels :) have a blast!!! -Jen

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